Pelosi Rewrites History on the Assault against Her Husband

Democrats would have a better claim to moral authority if, when they condemn efforts to revise the history of January 6, they didn’t engage in revisionism themselves.

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Representative Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and her husband Paul pose on the red carpet at the 47th Kennedy Center Honors gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., December 8, 2024.

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After observing that the January 6 riots were “personal” for Nancy Pelosi and making note of the fact that the interlopers in the Capitol chanted her name and sought to “shoot her in the friggin’ brain,” Nancy Pelosi could only answer in the negative when CBS News host Margaret Brennan asked whether she thought the event’s “nonviolent attackers” deserved a pardon.

“The nonviolent?” Pelosi replied. “I think that’s a violent attacker.” Moreover, the former House speaker added, the instigation in which Donald Trump engaged ahead of that day’s violence didn’t end with the assault on the Capitol. “He called out to these people to continue their violence,” Pelosi continued. “My husband being a victim of all of that. And it’s still, he still has injuries from that attack. So it just goes on and on.”

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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